Everyday thoughts of the girl next door.

Some(useless) numbers

Something got into us yesterday and we set out to find out the density of population on earth, turns out it is 12-13 something people per square km. But then 70% of earth’s surface area is water, so the average density of population on land on earth is about 40 people per square km.
There are 22,000 people per square km in Mumbai though. That is 550 times more than that of the world average. So to have the same population density as Mumbai the world population should be 3.3 Trillion, yeah TRILLION!
The current rate of population growth is 1.188%. That means by the year 2686 the world will be as crowded as Mumbai. Unless of course we reclaim hundreds of kilometers of land from the sea, or a lot of us move to other planets in the solar system. But why do I care, I am not going to be alive anyway!

Lol…we are not the only crazy ones who do calculations like this, I guess 😉
Couple of days ago, we came across an ad that said one person’s identity is stolen every 3 seconds(from Norton Security), so we calculated how long it would take for everyone in the USA to have their ids stolen, and it was 5 years 🙂
Useless numbers for sure, but fun to play with nevertheless.
We are all such geeks 😀